Independent Women’s Forum, and the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina are suing the Biden-Harris administration for unlawfully rewriting Title IX, threatening female athletes and students by redefining “sex” to include “gender identity.” The radical redefinition of sex discrimination ignores biological reality and common sense. It undermines students’ privacy in sex-specific spaces like showers and locker rooms and upends the foundation of women’s sports. The new rule also demands that schools prohibit gender identity-based “harassment,” now so broadly defined as to require that students use pronouns and names consistent with a student’s gender identity. And it dissolves due process protections for students accused of such sexual harassment.
On July 30, 2024, the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama denied our request for a preliminary injunction. On appeal, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted a preliminary injunction pending appeal, halting the illegal rewrite from taking effect in the Plaintiff States. The Court’s August 22, 2024 Opinion enjoins the government from enforcing its anti-woman rule as the case progresses in the Eleventh Circuit.
Legal Documents:
- Complaint (April 29, 2024)
- Motion for Preliminary Injunction (May 8, 2024)
- Opposition to Preliminary Injunction (June 5, 2024)
- Reply in Support of Preliminary Injunction (June 19, 2024)
- Decision Denying Preliminary Injunction (July 30, 2024)
- Plaintiffs’ Motion for Injunction Pending Appeal (July 30, 2024)
- Motion for Administrative Injunction Pending Appeal (July 30, 2024)
- DOJ Opposition to Injunction (July 31, 2024)
- Reply in Support of Administrative Injunction (July 31, 2024)
- Order Granting Administrative Injunction (July 31, 2024)
- Motion for Injunction Pending Appeal (August 2, 2024)
- Reply in Support of Motion for Injunction Pending Appeal (August 7, 2024)
- Opinion Granting Preliminary Injunction (August 22, 2024)
- Opening Brief (Sept. 19, 2024)